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furuoshiki:
Hey man like someone else here said, the average kid wants to attend school for as small a time period as possible.

Just because some kids aren't interested in Shakespeare and the size of Baleen whales penis doesn't mean they are lazy dickwads.  :D

kostya:
The biggest problem with American schools is that the half-ass students of today are the teachers of tomorrow. On several occasions I had teachers who were recent graduates of top universities (as in top 20-30 universities in the country). They were incompetent. I do not mean that they were not good at teaching, I mean that they did not know the material. They never properly learned mathematical proofs or simple mechanics. In college, the professors assumed that everyone had a solid high school back ground and since no one knew it, grading on a curve did not encourage anyone to learn it.

Some of the highlights include:

* The good physics teacher (the one that actually knew the material well) tutoring some of the other physics teachers.
* My teachers being unable to provide a trivial counter example in geometry

misachaos:

--- Quote from: kostya on September 30, 2009, 12:22:52 AM ---The biggest problem with American schools is that the half-ass students of today are the teachers of tomorrow.

--- End quote ---

Right on the target, I remember I had a young math teacher who did nothing but have paper wad basket ball competitions with the boys to see who could get it in the garbage quicker. And this year, my English teacher lets this one student interrupt the entire class and doesnt let her talk so we earn nothing, Literally talk to friends.

Ive spoken to my teacher and she said she heard obama wanted to extend class to 6 days a week and 9hrs a day.
not just an additional 45min

Klocknov:
I still think lengthening the day won't do much other then give the kids more time to goof off. They are tackling the problem with a solution that really doesn't look like it will work. It is like sticking a tourniquet on the arm when the person go shot in the leg. Lengthening time in school is not going to be liked by most students and the ones that are messing around now aren't going to change more then likely. Also it doesn't help another and a more major problem, the curriculum that most teachers use. I found that maybe they should start by setting a nationwide curriculum and then go further if seen to need more. Also extending the school day I don't think would help as much as maybe re-vamping and making a longer school year. Also maybe the disciplinary system does need a reality check, maybe not like darkjedi is trying to push, but I wouldn't absolutely rule that out.

I had my share of good teachers, but had my bigger share of shit teachers. Though I find the ones that ended up being better either had another job that they used the skills in or were old. I had one good young teacher though, which I ended up though using since she was way to nice.

vicious796:
A school district in Northern Virginia switched to a "year-round" schedule awhile back and is now "reaping the benefits" of it. At first, it looked like there was nothing different and the kids were more restless. Some of them liked having small vacations throughout the year (2-3 weeks at a time) but others clung to their summer-long break. Now, the schools are claiming to have better grades, better attendance, and better college acceptance and attribute it to the year-round system. Kids don't go off for 3 months to forget everything they may have learned in class. Once the children adapt to their new surroundings and get "breathers" of 2-3 weeks at a time but then come RIGHT back to where they left off it allows for easier growth. It's easy to forget something after 3 months, not as easy after 2 weeks.

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